Silvio Danailov
Number of games in database: 50
Years covered: 1980 to 2000
Last FIDE rating: 2466(2419 blitz)
Overall record: +7 -19 =19 (36.7%)*
* Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
5 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

Augalv: <for every person with common sense it is obvious that Topalov had by far the best results in 2008. He won the strongest tournaments in Bilbao and Nanjing and he is number one in the World ratings with big margin. The biggest result of Vishy was to beat the player number six in the world in the World Championship match. Great achievement, of course, but not enough to win the Oscar.>

SamAtoms1980: This guy is a thug, and a mobster. If Topalov were a self-respecting player I have no idea why he would associate himself with the likes of him. Not only does Danailov constantly pull all kinds of outrageous crap on behalf of Topalov, but he accuses his opponents' camps of doing the same. He really needs to just STFU.....

Just STFU.....

P.S. If by some unlikely chance Topalov should steal the title from Anand, he will not hold onto it for long. Magnus Carlsen would blow the ever-loving holy #$%& of mother out of Topalov in a title match...

badest: <P.S. If by some unlikely chance Topalov should steal the title from Anand, he will not hold onto it for long. Magnus Carlsen would blow the ever-loving holy #$%& of mother out of Topalov in a title match...> Sorry but Anand/Kramnik/Topalov would spank the boy in a match if they are in decent form. People that say that Carlsen will demolish NN always seem to assume that Magus is playing at 2900+ strength and his opponents at about 2750 ...

pawn to QB4: <If Topalov were a self-respecting player I have no idea why he would associate himself with the likes of him>. yes, I too think Danailov comes across as pretty gruesome. But if I were advising Vishy Anand I'd be telling him that, now he's taken the decision to play in Bulgaria, he should be scouring the chess world for someone equally horrid to fight his corner if required. As for why Topalov associates with him...must be great to have someone do the office politics for you, while most of the damage to reputation ends up with him instead of you.

talisman: <Open Defence> good one.
i don't like this guy.
i don't think anand likes this guy.
i' real sure anand's wife doesn't like this guy.
the ty cobb of chess and i don't think ty cobb would've liked this guy.
he says that manager is a serious title and anand's wife is not a manager. silvio, manager is serious title in baseball. in chess it means leech.

Sbetsho: adair10: I won't. Even if he does all the right things but then manages to establish this:

"The 30 seconds a move increment (and any increment in general!) should be abandoned. That’s essentially deprived fans of the enthralling spectacle of time trouble."

If this happens, Chess would be pretty much dead for me. Those timetrouble scrambles can be exciting to watch maybe (for me, not), but is very effectively destroying the essence and the beauty of the game, not to mention also the quality of play.

Maybe it's just me, but I find it much more enjoyable to watch (and even more, play) games that have increment so the games ends (more likely) to deserving conclusion instead of things get mixed for such arbitary limitation as absolute time when all the good play and planning may come to nothing because you are forced to play moves blinding fast and the game transforms into a speed competition and has very little to do with chess anymore.

I am writing to you on behalf of the European chess family regarding the forthcoming FIDE Congress in Krakow. Namely, with my colleagues I analyzed the proposed changes, since they are very important for the future of chess, especially from the viewpoint of organization of chess competitions and their further development and growth in number.

In addition, I read very attentively the letters sent to the FIDE Executive Board by the Spanish Chess Federation and the Royal Dutch Chess Federation which are concerned with the proposed changes.

Furthermore, I received a certain number of e-mails and phone calls from the representatives of federations as well as from organizers, arbiters and chess players.

All the phone calls and conversations contains one core in common – a great concern for the future of chess competitions if those proposals are adopted.

With that being said, before to give any explanation, I take this opportunity to make my own proposal:

I SUGGEST: SINCE THE PROPOSALS IN QUESTION KNOWN AS "REGULATIONS ON REGISTRATION & LICENSING OF PLAYERS" AND "PROPOSAL TO CHARGE RATING FEES DIRECTLY TO ORGANIZERS" ARE NOT DISCUSSED YET, IT`S BETTER TO AVOID TO MAKE A DECISION ON THEM AT THE FORTHCOMING FIDE CONGRESS.

Namely, as the President of the continental federation, I believe that such changes need to be discussed more broadly reaching clear answers to the following questions – why have these changes been implemented and in which way the chess world will benefit from these changes?

I feel free to make a few comments on the above mentioned:

1. It is evident that, according to the new proposal for registration and the payments for the rated tournaments, the communication with FIDE shifts from the national federations straight to the tournament organizers. I am pretty sure that it brings a great danger, especially for the reason that, according to both the FIDE and the ECU Statutes, our partners are national federations.

2. Knowing the situation in many European countries, I claim that a huge number of organizers do not have knowledge enough to fulfill communication standard with FIDE regarding the rating of tournaments.

3. I am pretty sure that the annual payment of licenses, no matter the amount, would instantly decrease the number of active chess players ready to participate in the competitions even by half, and I believe that the same would happen with the tournaments if the launched proposals would be adopted.

I would like to express my concerns regarding these proposals, for they would cause a significant decrease in the number of chess competitions, or their transformation into unofficial ones – with unrated status. In addition, it might also happen that some national federations will ignore this system.

Dear Mr. President,

Dear Executive Board Members,

I really hope that the common sense will prevail like many times so far, and I believe that now you will find the solution how to avoid a great crisis and danger which might shake the chess motto idea "GENS UNA SUMUS".

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